CSUSA: Copyright Limitations & Laches
When:
March 5, 2015
About the Event:
When: Thursday, March 5, 2015
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where: Jackson Walker L.L.P.
100 Congress Street, Suite 1100
Austin, Texas 78701
About the event: On May 19, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion that weakened the laches defense to copyright infringement and breathed new life into a lawsuit over the 1980 film Raging Bull that the defendant argued was filed 18 years too late. Now, in less than a year's time, the effects of the "Raging Bull" decision – Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 1962 (2014) – are being seen in the revival of copyright cases that were thought to have been dead, as well as in the context of trademark and patent litigation. Stevie Fitzgerald, a staff attorney with The Authors Guild in New York City, which submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Petrella, and Amber Lee Hagy, an IP litigator from the Austin office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will discuss this important copyright decision and its effects, as well as the time-based copyright infringement defenses of limitations and laches. C
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